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Duplicate pages

Hey, I accidentally created a page at List of athletes on Wheaties boxes instead of actually moving this page (List of Wheaties athletes) there, so now I need someone with sysop privileges to do this (since the page is already there, but cleared). No information will be lost, since I've been the only one working on it and I got a nice suggestion to move the page but messed it up.

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Unattested

Can anybody who can confirm the ID of the nicknamed guys on this list please include them on the List of athletes by nickname? Thanx! Trekphiler 14:44, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

San Antonio Express-News

maybe David Robinson and Tim Duncan should be on this list?

http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:External_peer_review#San_Antonio_Express-News well, yes Zheliel (talk) 09:51, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What about the 2005 & 2007 spurs appearing on the box?--72.183.200.78 (talk) 12:47, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Has anybody tried to contact wheaties for a list?

hmmm? HighInBC 03:36, 3 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Check out this: /letter from General Mills, I emailed them and they gave what looks like a partial list. have all these been included?

Jesus Christ- Dodgeball?

 I need some help here. I have looked all over for some confirmation of

the existence of a Jesus Wheaties box. Can someone confirm this and if not, how did it get on the list? And, while we're at it, Woody Allen? Again, I can find no confirmation. Doktorf 02:43, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion, sortable categorized list

Would be nice to have a list that was sortable by date, type of sport and recipient.TCO (talk) 20:59, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And nearly 4 years later....I've finally done this. There are still a lot of dates and some sports missing, but all the information that was in the article before, I have preserved in the sortable table. Rreagan007 (talk) 20:28, 19 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Jerry Sandusky prank?

The presence of Jerry Sandusky on this list of Wheaties athletes (in 2012, after he was indicted for numerous counts of child abuse) is an offensive prank--right? There's no chance General Mills put Sandusky on a box after his arrest; unless someone can supply a source for this it should be deleted. Frostfish (talk) 19:10, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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2003 Jesse Owens - seems suspect, typo, or editing mistake. SquashEngineer (talk) 17:15, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]